Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Microsoft released a small tool called the "Microsoft Remote Desktop assistant". For the average user it's sometimes unclear what exact steps to take to configure for example a home computer to allow Remote Access using RDP from another device, tablet et cetera. The Microsoft Remote Desktop assistant simplifies this proces. The Remote Desktop assistant configures Remote Connections, opens the Firewall ports needed and provides an easy link that other devices can use to set up the Remote Connection.

The installation is an easy to install Click Once application

After you accept the license terms you are ready to setup up Remote Access

Once the configuration is completed you will be provided with a several options that allow easy setup of the client.

In this case I saved the configuration file and send that via email to my phone. Opening the link on my phone results in opening the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client (available in the AppStore) and after entering credentials I'm able to connect.

The Remote Desktop assistant allows easy configuration of Remote Sessions using RDP in home scenario's.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

The
Microsoft RDS Product team has released on important hotfix for RD Connection
Broker performance running on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016!

Have been waiting for this one to be released! Glad to see its now publically
available!

“…Internal testing of
the RD Connection Broker connection-handling code shows a significant
improvement during logon storms and when adding/restarting RD Session Host
servers to a farm. We also see similar improvements through internal testing of
the end to end connection scenario via the Windows RD client (MSTSC).

Specific results
include:

Logon Storm- 100% connection
success with initial burst of 100 connections at a rate of 2 connections per
second - 0.2 second average
connection time through RD Connection Broker, down from over a minute

RDSH Add/Restart- 100% success
adding/restarting servers at rate of 1 server per second with 5 sessions per
server - 2 second average
add/restart time, down from over thirty minutes

MSTSC End to End- 100% connection
success at a rate of 100 connections per minute - 25 second average
connection time, down from over seven minutes…”